Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He has launched into the presidential campaign and continues a natural tendency that comes from his cradle. If you are Kennedy, you have political aspirations.
His last name is his business card, which links him to one of the most representative lineages of American liberalism. On the other hand, his words and, above all, his content cause the vast majority of Democrats to consider that he has the wrong party and that he should appear as one of the large field of Republican candidates for the candidacy for the elections of the year 2024. They think he plays in that league.
Lawyer Kennedy, 69, is one of the Camelot court in the United States. One of the important ones. His uncle, John, was the president who was assassinated in Dallas (Texas) in November 1963, and his father Robert, better known as Bobby, also fell victim to bullets in Los Angeles, in 1968, after winning the primaries in California. and have all the numbers to be the progressive candidate in that year's elections.
This other scion of the dynasty is considered the lost sheep, according to the family itself, as one of the great propagators of conspiracy and dangerous theories. It is one thing to be friends with Marilyn Monroe as her uncle and her father, and another to connect with fans of Donald Trump, the MAGA, or with the followers of the cult of the QAnon sect.
“This campaign is a joke,” Democratic lawmaker Robert Garcia said of the Kennedy candidate. "He's running in the wrong primary and has zero chance," he added.
His age, 80 years, plays against the current president, since around 60% of voters consider him too old. However, no one with a face and eyes seems willing to put up a fight.
But since Kennedy announced his campaign, criticizing the link between the government and the power of the corporations, a great media agitation has been created, especially due to the embrace of the ultra-conservative media, which see it as a distorting element to weaken Biden.
His pedigree made Democrats, not a few open to a younger alternative, explore this option. In some polls, he has been given 20%, although he did not pose a threat compared to Biden's 62%.
Although his last name is a magical term, the problem arises as soon as he opens his mouth and it is confirmed that he lives in a world of conspiracies and paranoia.
Once he went into campaign mode, he parked his anti-vaccine theories, in which, contradicting specialists and without any proof, he links them to autism. It was better to park the subject because his image goes badly stopped as soon as he gets into that terrain.
Until a few days ago he left the electoral script. In a speech on ultra-conservative Joe Rogan's popular podcast, he was swept up in his obsessions and his pseudo-scientific views.
“Now they will say that no study links autism to vaccines. It's crazy. Those people don't look at science, they are a kind of religion," Kennedy warned.
He was wrong. Doctors reacted by brandishing the studies he despises and calling his intervention "appalling" and a danger to public health. Quite the contrary, health organizations stressed that these vaccines have saved millions of lives.
It's been four years since his siblings Kathleen and Joseph P., along with a niece, Maeve, published an article accusing him of spreading "dangerous misinformation" and putting millions of children at risk.
And then came the pandemic, at which time Kennedy was accused of being a pariah because he freely spoke out against the serum, the masks and the confinements, which he compared to the Holocaust, to the concentration camps in which the Nazis locked up Jews and dissidents. Although he apologized, this meant that he was banned from the networks.
In a book that he published in 2021, he accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top official in the fight against covid and today one of Trumpism's favorite enemies, of being "the organizer of a coup against Western democracy."
There is more ideology that brings you closer to the radical conservatives and distances you from those who are supposed to be yours. Kennedy is committed to "sealing" the southern border and not letting any immigrant in. He acquits Vladimir Putin and considers that the United States has allied with Ukraine to mount the war against Russia.
In addition, 5G technology damages people's DNA and is an individual spying tool. It also accuses Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, of developing an injectable chip as another spy item. Defender of the environment, his position has veered towards far-right positions and he assures that the climate emergency is used to "establish totalitarian controls in society."
It is not surprising that support is dwindling among the supposed voters of his party in direct proportion to the exaltation that ultra-conservative characters such as the television personality Tucker Carlson, expelled from Fox, of technology such as Elon Musk or one of the founders make of him. from Twitter, Jack Dorsey, as well as Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani (former Trump advisers) or Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former president's main cheerleader.
And what is this Kennedy doing here, the same one who denies that his uncle and father were killed by those who killed them? The White House is completely unaware of his existence and denies any possibility of debates. Party leaders follow the same pattern. Among Democrats, some think they should rage against the contender. Others counter that this would be giving too much importance to a conspiracy spreader.
